As far as I know, there has till now been no Linux software for the
cheap just-a-few-diodes serial port pic16c84 programmer hardware, though I
have not been reading this list if such a software has been mentioned
here.

  So I wrote one.  For details, code and html documentation see:

        http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/pic/picprog.html

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echo 'movl $36,%eax;int $128;movl $0,%ebx;movl $1,%eax;int $128'|as -o/bin/sync